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Binary (Tarball) Distributions

To install a
binary distribution, you need the
tar utility and the GNU gunzip
utility. These tools are now a part of the standard
distribution of many Unix systems.

Warning

Solaris tar is known to have problems with some
of the long filenames in the MySQL binary distribution. To unpack the
binary distribution successfully on a Solaris system, you may need to
obtain GNU
gtar. A binary
distribution version of this is available from http://www.mysql.com/downloads/os-solaris.html.

The binary distributions are all named using
the following convention:
mysql-version-os.tar.gz.
The version placeholder is the version number of
the software contained in the distribution. The
os placeholder is the operating system for which
the binary distribution is built. Binary distributions named
mysql-max-version-os.tar.gz
contain a version of MySQL compiled with support for transaction-safe
tables.

Assume, for example, that we have chosen to install MySQL 3.23.40 on
a Sun Solaris server. Also assume the distribution file
mysql-3.23.40-sun-solaris2.7-sparc.tar.gz has
been downloaded into the /tmp directory.

We recommend that you create a user and group for MySQL
administration. This user should be used to run the
mysql server and perform administrative tasks.
It is possible to run the server as root, but this is not
recommended.

The first step is to create a user to run the MySQL server. On
Solaris and Linux, this can be done with the
useradd
and
groupadd utilities. ...

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